ARTIST

 

Zora Palová

Zora Palová remains faithful to her tactile creed of “hand” modeling of sculptures. The results are powerful, often fully plastic masses or structures, whether they are ships, bridges, seas or shadows, as she often names her creations. In the most recent period, she has internally maximized not only the format, form and artistic idea of the work, but especially her personal preoccupation and engagement as if it is really “about everything”. The essence of her sculptural thought was never “literary” or epic, but rather metaphorical and pictorial, and now it is becoming ever more evocative. Since she understands glass from all points of view, she can, so to speak, breathe life into this material. The personally experienced is transformed into the universally understandable, the visually effective into the magically spellbinding.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

1975Academy of Fine Arts, glass in architecture, Bratislava, SLO
1996-Professor at the University of Sunderland, UK.


Awards / Grants (Selected)

2008Rakow Comm, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
2007Bayerische Staatspreis Handwerkmesse,Munich, DE. 
Crystal Wing, Slovakia
2006Coburg Glass Prize for Contemporary Glass in Europe, 3rd Coburg, DE.
1993Triennale Prize,International Glasskunst Triennale, Nurnberg, DE.


Exhibitions (Selected)

1997-2010Habatat Galleries, Florida, USA./ Gallery Jean-Claude Chappelotte, Luxembourg/ 
Gallery Pokorna, Prague, Cz. Rep./ 
Gallery NOVA, Bratislava, Slovakia. 
2001-2010Peggy Guggenheim ,Collection,Venice, Italy/ 
Vaclav Cigler and Graduates, MANES, Prague, CZ./ 
SOFA 2004, Chicago,USA ./ 
Trends in Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel/ 
iGlass 2010,Levant Art Gallery, Shanghai,CN.


Collections (Selected)

10 Museums and private collections in the USA., CZ., DE., UK., NL. and JAPAN. 

Commissions: 
1996 ´Guardian´, cast glass and granite, 8m tall, Association of Dutch Insurers, Den Haag, NL./ 
1998 ´Light Transformer´ ,with Stepan Pala, cast glass and slate, 5m tall, Nat. Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK. / 
2008 ´Drinking-City-Fountain´, Granite and steel,1m tall,Piestany,Slovakia and 5 private commissions.